This is full interface to the Libdc1394_control library. It allows you
to capture video from a firewire(IEEE1394) video camera.

8.3.1.0. Installation

First, make sure you have the hardware that works under Linux. Check the
compatibility list on: http://www.linux1394.org In my
case, I have a iBot webcam from Orange Micro, and a host adapter card
from CompUSA (with the VT6306 chipset from VIA). On RedHat8.0, the
adapter gets recognized during booting.

The libraries for firewire video devices are
libdc1394 and libraw1394 .
They sit on top of drivers raw1394 ,
video1394 , which in turn use ohci1394
and ieee1394 . Their relations are
illustrated below:

Once the computer boots up, ohci1394 and ieee1394 modules should already
be loaded in the memory. You may need to manually load in raw1394 and
video1394 by:

/sbin/insmod raw1394
/sbin/insmod video1394

These modules should be available on systems like RedHat8.0 by default.
RedHat also has RPM for libraw1394 and libraw1394-devel, you need both.

Libdc1394 is available in source code
form, and can be accessed from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/libdc1394/ . Compile and install it,
then test it by running the grab_gray_image
in the examples directory.(Make sure you have the read/write access
right to /dev/video1394 and
/dev/raw1394 ). If succeed, it dumps a gray image captured
via the camera.